Experience

Kasselman Solar

• United States
• Renewable Energy Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Finance & Payroll Manager

  • Jun 2017 - Present

  Oversee and supervise the organizations' payroll functions, ensuring pay is processed on time, accurately, and in compliance with local, state, federal and government regulations. Responsible for payroll for all employees, pay compliance, 401K plan, managing timely submissions, withdrawals, rollovers and reviews of payroll reporting. Train and recruit all new payroll and finance employees ensuring a smooth onboarding and ramp-up period. Perform a combination of general accounting and AP/AR duties including routine and non-recurring general accounting, bonus payouts, commission and incentive programs.

• Project Specialist

  • Jun 2017 - Aug 2022

  Worked with project managers and leadership to assist with project execution, sales commission programs and calculations. Assisted the permitting department to open and close out permits for customer sales.

• Human Resources Generalist

  • Jun 2017 - Aug 2022

  Administered all payroll, compensation and benefit plans for new and existing employees including coordinating open enrollment events on an annual basis. Conducted employee onboarding for hourly and salaried employees and helped plan training and development events. Maintained employee files and records in electronic and paper form.



NYSERDA

• United States
• Government Administration
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Project Coordinator

  • Dec 2016 - Mar 2017

  Performed cost verification functions at New York State Energy Research and Development, a public benefit corporation, utilizing skills in excel, and overall data analytics to help the organization better understand their information and convert it to statistics and quantitative results. • Verified project expenditures of multi-million-dollar renewable energy facilities. • Analyzed vendor-specific documents, and facility-based accounts for cost integrity and allocation accuracy. • Entered extensive amounts of data and ensure overall exactitude • Accumulated and assessed expenditures to ensure that grants were properly fulfilled



Office of the NYS Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli

• United States
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Program Assistant

  • Nov 2014 - May 2015

  Program Assistant/Internship, Assisted NY State employees, primarily in the fields of Human Resources and Data Analytics, including participation in employee engagement tasks. • Coordinated and executed administrative tasks, communications, and enhancements for 5 agency-wide employee engagement and recognition programs • Spearheaded committee objectives and project deliverables for a nationally celebrated recognition program, Public Service Recognition Week • Authored supervisory training tactics for mentoring workplace mistakes and presented findings to 30 supervisors. • Generated statistical analyses and finalized results for 3 program-end reports and other HR-related requests.



Children's Museum of Science & Technology

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos

• HR Systems Analyst

  • Sep 2014 - May 2015

  Helped revamp overall processes and implement structure for data analytics at a local non-profit, educational organization, as part of my MBA Field Experience. Improved performance and reduced waste in order to expand the organization. • Evaluated organizational operations and systems and identified 5 areas for improvement. • Examined cost structures, performance measures, compensation practices, and related data for 75 programs and 20 teachers. • Overhauled performance evaluation system by introducing a 21-question, section-specific program evaluation, designed to better integrate desired compensation/incentive strategies. • Directly oversaw the implementation process of 6 organizational and HR-based enhancements into current company policies and protocols



Homewood Suites by Hilton Albany, NY

• University at Albany/Homewood Suites

• Sustainability Analyst/MBA Capstone Project

  • May 2014 - May 2014

  Turf Hotels, a 5-property, award-winning establishment within the Capital Region, was a 3rd-year returning client of the MBA’s G3 Program. As part of a group, I worked to analyze and develop sustainable initiatives which would allow the Homewood Suites property to operations as the owner looked toward the grand opening of a new hotel. • Through many scheduled and impromptu meetings with executive management and my group, I helped develop analyses resulting in 6 sustainable recommendations that would save Turf Hotels $160,000 within 5 years • As each group member focused on specific recommendations, I championed the analyses and presentation of two initiatives accounting for about 43% of the total savings (~$70,000 in 5 years)



University at Albany, SUNY

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Clinical Research Assistant

  • May 2012 - May 2013

  The University at Albany is Albany’s largest public university, enrolling over 17,000 students, with nearly $90 million in research expenditures spanning a large range of research fields. As part of the Psychology Research Department, I was tasked with researching and analyzing academic articles relating to addictive drugs and their psychological effects. • After obtaining the desired literature instructions, I submitted summaries and interpretations of various academic articles citing similar experimental results found on several University and academic databases • At the desire of my instructor, I researched multiple articles and drafted proposal documents for study involving light therapy and progressive muscle relaxation